Orality
Model
63%
Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,466 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(727 words)
M:28%
GuestBrad Setser(3,854 words)
M:26%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic24%
literally, completely, very
Engagement57%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, well
Repetition100%
china (87x), trade (53x), think (41x)
Parallelism95%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But you're actually right that..., And now, as you say, trade has...
Sound Patterns36%
24 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases9%
at the end of the day, you know what, so to speak
Literate Indicators
Hedging12%
maybe, could, might
Passive Voice8%
been used, was worried, are approved
Abstract Nouns26%
investment, recommendation, moment
Subordination9%
because, though, nonetheless
Sentence Length47%
Avg: 16.7 words/sentence
Word Complexity49%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style43%
374 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style78%
literally, completely, actually
Description
Recent threats to impose tariffs on Chinese goods, coupled with China's own retaliatory announcements have raised the prospects of a trade war between the world's two biggest economies. But what is a trade war, and what would be the economic ramifications if there were one? Brad Setser, the Steven A. Tananbaum senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins us on this week’s Odd Lots to help answer those questions. Brad has been writing about trade issues for many years, and explains what exactly we're seeing now, how the current trade actions differ from standard moves on trade, and where ultimately all these actions might go. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.